“We are scared and ashamed and terrified,” said Sofi Hakkinen, with her arm slung around her boyfriend’s neck outside the Finnish parliament. “This is not supposed to be happening, but it is.”
Hakkinen was one of a thousand – mainly young – people who gathered outside Finland’s parliament on Wednesday evening to protest at the far-right links of ministers inside the new government, described by analysts as the most rightwing administration in the country’s history, and its austerity and immigration-cutting programme.
